Victoria warned of power shortfall risk after Hazelwood shuts down

Doubts have been cast over
 Victoria's level of energy security. 

Victoria's energy security has been thrown into question, with the state facing an unprecedented 72 days of possible power supply shortfalls over the next two years following the shutdown of the Hazelwood plant next week.

Australia's electricity grid operator has warned that the looming shutdown of the ageing plant, which supplies up to a quarter of the state's power, could lead to breaches of the minimum energy reliability benchmark next summer.

Read Josh Gordon’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - "Victoria warned of power shortfall risk after Hazelwood shuts down.”

(Of course the shift from early energy sources - mostly animal, human, water and wind - to those afforded us by fossil fuels was not without it problems, or complexities, so why should the shift from fossil fuel powered energy to renewable energy be any different? - Robert McLean)